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Fans gather Jan. 26 outside Staples center in Los Angeles, California, to mourn the death of Kobe Bryant.

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Senate Bill 74 prohibits a nonbinary option on state-issued identification.

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A police officer stands guard June 15, 2017, on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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The Rogers Energy Complex is one of six Duke Energy Plants that was told to excavate the last of its coal ash ponds.

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Vice President Mike Pence takes the stage Dec. 18 during President Trump's "Merry Christmas" campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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A group of protesters call for the release of Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein, an Iranian citizen who was detained Jan. 19 at Boston Logan International Airport. He was returning to Boston for his spring semester at Northeastern University.

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Billie Eilish poses Jan. 26 backstage at the 62nd Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Eilish won five Grammys.

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Coal-fired power plants next to the Wyodak mine east of Gillette, Wyoming, provide electricity for millions of homes.

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A screen shows a memorial for Kobe Bryant Jan. 26 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Bryant died in a helicopter crash Jan. 26.

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Danielle Wade, Megan Masako Haley, Mariah Rose Faith and Jonanyn Saxer perform during the musical, Mean Girls. The musical is based off of the 2004 film and premiered on Broadway in April 2018.

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The shell of a Mr. Peanut costume from the 1930s sits Jan. 24 at the Peanut Shoppe in Akron, Ohio. For a Super Bowl commercial, Mr. Peanut died by falling into a canyon to save actors Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh.

Alex Speck holds the shell of the Mr. Peanut costume Jan. 24 from the 30's that he has worn for parades since he was 12 years old at the Peanut Shoppe in Akron, Ohio. For a super bowl commercial, Mr. Peanut sacrificed himself by falling into a canyon to save actors Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh.

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Taylor Swift performs June 1, 2019, at Wango Tango 2019. Since the '30s, music has become a political staple. 

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Musician Bob Dylan performs during the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Jan. 12, 2012, at The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Since the '30s, music has become a political staple.

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Jihea Song, an Emory University student, does physical training at Georgia Institute of Technology with ROTC students from Emory, Georgia Tech and Agnes Scott College three mornings a week. Military recruiters target working class students on campus, writes columnist Serena Fox.

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According to a poll from the Society for Human Resource Management 57% of employers drug test employees.

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Airlines would no longer be required to consider emotional support animals as service animals under new rules proposed Jan. 22 by the U.S. Department of Transportation.The proposal must undergo a public comment phase before being finalized.

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Carl Caldwell sings and plays mandolin Aug. 25, 2018, at the Station Inn in Nashville, Tennessee. Folk songs are littered with emotional details.

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Wichita State University's Grant Sherfield and University of South Florida's Antun Maricevic battle for a rebound during the first half Jan. 21 at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. Adding a salary cap to NCAA athletics would mean each program would have a gap on how much money it can spend on its rosters.

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President Donald Trump speaks Jan. 21 at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.